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Definition of It

The neuter pronoun of the third person, corresponding to the masculine pronoun he and the feminine she, and having the same plural (they their or theirs them).

the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information

How to use it in a sentence. It pronunciation.

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It was late evening; the sun had set.

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Yet I felt that I must needs go and lay my hand in love upon the door of the empty hut which had been ever as thee left it.

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Who, think thee, was it?

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By now I had recovered myself, for it was no ghost I saw, but a human being more distraught than was myself.

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Ay, and he would have it, because it pleased him to have it-like his father before him.

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A poor sparrow on a tree-top, if you tell him he must not have it, he will hunt it down the world till it is his, as though it was a bird of paradise.

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And when he's seen it fall at last, he'll remember but the fun of the chase; and the bird may get to its tree-top again-if it can-if it can-if it can, my lord!

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He came to snatch old Soolsby's palace, his nest on the hill, to use it for a telescope, or such whimsies.

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Now is it astronomy, and now chemistry, and suchlike; and always it is the Eglington mind, which let God A'mighty make it as a favour.

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It scared him, as though I was the devil himself, to find me here.

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Then he would buy my Colisyum, and I wouldn't sell it for all his puffball lordship might offer.

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All but one," said he, "and that is my own, for it was his mind upon Soolsby the drunken chair-maker.

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Nay, I will give you a taste of it now," he added, as he brought forth the writing.

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I feel Soolsby here at times so sharply that it would seem he came again and was in this room, though he is dead and gone.

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I ask him how it came he lived here alone; how it came that he made chairs, he, with brains enough to build great houses or great bridges; how it was that drink and he were such friends; and how he, a Catholic, lived here among us Quakers, so singular, uncompanionable, and severe.

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I think it true, and sadly true, that a man with a vice which he is able to satisfy easily and habitually, even as another satisfies a virtue, may give up the wider actions of the world and the possibilities of his life for the pleasure which his one vice gives him, and neither miss nor desire those greater chances of virtue or ambition which he has lost.

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Well, it was so strange, and it fixed itself upon my mind so deeply, and thy writings at the hut have been so much in my hands and in my mind, that I have put it all down here.

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When I asked Soolsby how it came he had been rumoured dead, he said that he himself had been the cause of it; but for what purpose he would not say, save that he was going a long voyage, and had made up his mind to return no more.

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My father reads it over and over, and shakes his head sadly, for, truth is, he has a fear that the world may lay its hand upon thee.

Examples of It

Yet I felt that I must needs go and lay my hand in love upon the door of the empty hut which had been ever as thee left it.

Example #4

After visiting Jasper Kimber at Heddington, as I came back over the hill by the path we all took that day after the Meeting-Ebn Ezra Bey, my father, Elder Fairley, and thee and me-I drew near the chairmaker's but where thee lived alone all those sad months.

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So I came down the little path swiftly, and then round the great rock, and up towards the door.